Patterns and layering
Subtitle: Japanese spatial culture, nature and architecture
By: foreword, Kengo Kuma ; editors, Salvator-John A. Liotta, Matteo Belfiore ; Graphic edition by Ilze Paklone, Rafael A. Balboa
Publisher: Gestalten; DGV
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9783899554618
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Architectural Decoration and ornament; Repetitive patterns (Decorative arts); Nature in art; Architecture
Other titles: Japanese spatial culture, nature and architecture
Description: Patterns and Layering is a journey into the activities of Kengo Kuma Research Lab. The book aims to establish the interrelation between patterns and layering within architecture. These two previously detached notions can now be integrated into one methodology mediated by structural concepts. Patterns and Layering is the first book to introduce this new interrelationship, which has the potential to begin a new architectural and design revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Kengo Kuma; title: Background  -- Salvator-John A. Liotta and Matteo Belfiore; title: Patterns, Japanese spatial culture, nature, and generative design  -- Salvator-John A. Liotta; title: Spatial layering in Japan  -- Matteo Belfiore; title: Japanese pattern eccentricities  -- Rafael Balboa and Ilze Paklone; title: Evolution of geometric pattern  -- Ling Zhang; title: Development in Japanese traditional pattern under the influence of Chinese culture  -- Yao Chen; title: Patterns in Japanese vernacular architecture :; title: envelope layers and ecosystem integration  -- Catarina Vitorino; title: Distant distances  -- Bojan Milan Končarević; title: European and Japanese space :; title: a different perception through artists' eyes  -- Federico Scaroni; title: Pervious and phenomenal opacity :; title: boundary techniques and intermediating patterns as design strategies  -- Robert Baum; title: Integrated interspaces :; title: an urban interpretation of the concept of Oku  -- Cristiano Lippa; title: Craft mediated designs :; title: explorations in modernity and bamboo  -- Kaon Ko; title: Patterns as initiators of design, layering as codifier of space  -- Ko Nakamura and Mikako Koike; title: On pattern and digital fabrication -- Yusuke Obuchi.